5.1.0.201216 available (16th December)

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I've just posted the new NextPVR v5.1.0.201216 release. This build is pretty much the same as v5.1.0.201214 from a couple of days ago, but with a timeout increased, to fix an issue some users were encountering.

For information on installing on the various platforms....
Windows: https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=59388
Linux: https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=59390
Mac: https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=59395
Docker: https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=59393

Please post any support questions in v5 support forum https://forums.nextpvr.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=17.

New in v5.1.0.201216:

Increased a timeout used while importing IPTV channels from an m3u url.
Fixed a couple of places in the application where it wasn't correctly handling shows with episode/season numbers of more than 2 digits

New in v5.1.0.201214 was:

Fixed issue with bad playback in nextpvr.exe with bursty stream sources, like m3u8 IPTV channels
Added the ability to add/remove extra recording directories in the web app (fairly basic UI at this stage, and will be improved further in later releases)
Added experimental support for Digital Devices CI on Windows.
Fixed issue with scheduling an advanced recording from the Search screen with genre as a filter.
Improvements to TVMaze artwork support
Added fallback to use xmltv artwork if artwork cannot be found online.
Fixed issue with editing advanced recurring recordings in the web app
Fixed a couple of security issues with remote access to NextPVR
Tightened default security in NextPVR
Improved logic around time outs reading from m3u8 streams, to minimize missing blocks from source stream
Fixed an issue with IPTV channels with no content-type header supplied
Fixed issue with UI client search screen on Linux
Fxied issue with some keystrokes not working on TV Guide over live tv in NextPVR.exe
Fixed issue with timeline in the web app on daylight savings transition days
Added channel name to the web player for live tv
Added ratings/star_ratings to info available to kodi
Fixed issue on linux that could cause channels to be missing in scan if they have the same channel number
Fixed issue with long show names leading to recordings with filenames too large for the filesystem
Fixed issue with http headers when streaming video over http